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Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece - solved
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: cruft after introduction to vocal piece - solved |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:02:09 -0400 |
Hi Ed,
The man page refers to skips as "invisible rests". Is that not the
case?
It's probably just a semantic argument, but in my opinion, NO.
[The docs should probably be changed to eliminate confusion.]
A rest is a graphic object which appears on a staff to indicate the
voice in question should remain silent while a certain amount of time
passes.
A skip is not a graphic object, it doesn't appear on a staff (or
anywhere, for that matter), and it provides no direction to any voice
about anything -- it is simply a technical tool to control Lilypond.
In other words, a rest has a score-based (musical) meaning, and a
skip doesn't.
Furthermore, as you have seen, filling empty measures with "s1"
versus "R1" will result in very different scores when you compile.
Best wishes,
Kieren.